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If you think you have a use for this lens...

Started Dec 23, 2013 | User reviews thread
micksh6
micksh6 Senior Member • Posts: 2,613
Re: If you think you have a use for this lens...

Godfrey wrote:

I'm going to have to borrow one of the Oly 45/1.8 lenses and compare it to the Macro-Elmarit 45/2.8 ASPH. that extra 1.2 stops of lens speed doesn't change the DoF (blur) very much,

It's 1.3 stop and I think it makes significant difference. Otherwise people wouldn't pay 3 times more money for only 2/3 stop difference (Nikon 85mm F1.4 vs F1.8 for example).

I don't have Pana 45mm F2.8 but I recently compared bokeh of Olympus 45mm and 75mm with 12-40mm at 40mm and F2.8. To me the difference is clear. Can't say for sure but Pana 45mm F2.8 probably would have similar bokeh as 12-40mm lens since it's also aspherical.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52669578

I very rarely use 45mm and 75mm lenses with smaller than F2.0 aperture. I think, photos with F2.8 just don't look as good as with F1.8.

As for topic, once I got 75mm F1.8 lens I use 45mm F1.8 only as a backup lens - for cases when 75mm is too long. Such cases don't occur very often to me, and otherwise 75mm is clearly a better lens, well deserved 5 stars. 45mm is just too different FL, and it's also a very good lens.

but I'll be interested to see how the rendering (bokeh) differs. 45mm is a very useful focal length on FourThirds format.

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